Don Mattingly

Kenley Jansen wanted revenge. A day earlier, he had served up a home run to Mike Trout. Now, here he was facing Trout again in the ninth inning Saturday, this time with the game on the line. With two men on and the Dodgers leading by three runs, Trout had a chance to level the game with a single stroke of his bat. Jansen struck him out. He gave up a run-scoring single to Albert Pujols, but closed out a 3-1 victory over the Angels by forcing Erick Aybar to pop up. Jansen was credited with his 19th save. In reference to Jansen's strikeout of Trout, Manager Don Mattingly said, "Kind of showed who he is." Jansen thought so too. "That's who I've been...

Related "Don Mattingly" Articles

Kenley Jansen wanted revenge.
A day earlier, he had served up a home run to Mike Trout. Now, here he was facing Trout again in the ninth inning Saturday, this time with the game on the line.
With two men on and the Dodgers leading by three runs, Trout...

Clayton Kershaw's eight-inning shutout performance was the story of the afternoon on Saturday, but Yasmani Grandal was pretty good too.
Grandal's two-run homer in the bottom of the sixth inning was the added cushion the Dodgers needed to defeat the...

Joc Pederson won't be in the Dodgers lineup again Saturday, as Manager Don Mattingly said he wanted to give the slumping rookie center fielder a mental break.Pederson also didn’t play the previous day in the series opener against the Angels."As...

Several hours before he was scheduled to start Friday night against the Angels, Clayton Kershaw was throwing in the outfield at Dodger Stadium.
There was a reason for that: He was about to be scratched.
Again.
Kershaw, who was also scratched from the...

Third baseman Justin Turner was placed on the 15-day disabled list Friday, opening one of the spots on the Dodgers roster needed for the players who were acquired the previous day in a three-way trade with the Atlanta Braves and Miami Marlins.Starting...

To the Los Angeles Olympic organizing committee: Please do what the city of Boston did and terminate your bid to hold the 2024 Olympics in Los Angeles. The Olympics have become nothing more than a scam for the people who run the movement. It has nothing...

As the Dodgers braced for the loss of third baseman Justin Turner into the weekend and perhaps beyond, they scratched ace Clayton Kershaw from his start Wednesday because of a sore hip.
Dodgers Manager Don Mattingly said Kershaw completed his bullpen...

Dodgers pitcher Clayton Kershaw will not make his scheduled start against the Oakland Athletics on Wednesday after being scratched from the lineup with a sore right hip.
"It's a little sore right now," Kershaw said. "Figure give it...

On the day the Dodgers dropped Joc Pederson out of the leadoff spot, the rookie center fielder wanted to make one thing perfectly clear: the home-run derby did not ruin his swing and dump him into a slump.
"I think I was going through it before...

In the first inning Tuesday, Joc Pederson struck out. In the fourth inning, he struck out again, and did not run to first base on the dropped third strike. In the sixth inning, he struck out for a third time, and scattered boos were heard at Dodger...

You need patience with the young, sometimes painfully long patience. It’s difficult when you can see how clearly talented they are, how limitless their future, and still how much they struggle.
No one doubts Joc Pederson’s ability. He did not come by...

The golden arms have thrown their final pitches before the trade deadline. It is all up to the front offices now.
With Cole Hamels or David Price, the Dodgers would take one giant leap toward the playoffs, and their first World Series victory since 1988....

The Dodgers erased a two-run deficit in the ninth inning, only to be sent to a defeat by an old friend.
Juan Uribe redirected a 10th-inning cut fastball from Kenley Jansen and lofted it over the head of center fielder Joc Pederson, driving in the...

Of course they would. They’re in the business of winning. They’d trade Stan Kasten’s first born if they thought they were getting enough back in return.
Only they’re not going to, so despite all those ramped-up rumors of Puig being dealt prior to...

With a 6-foot-4 frame, a beard and a left-handed delivery, Ian Thomas is occasionally mistaken by fans for Clayton Kershaw.
"I guess it's the scruff and the hair a little bit," Thomas said. "But far away from what he's been doing."
...

Zack Greinke will start Saturday or Sunday at Citi Field against the New York Mets, Manager Don Mattingly said.
Greinke, who has a scoreless streak of 43 2/3 innings, returned to Los Angeles on Thursday for the birth of his first child. He was expected...

Zack Greinke returned to Los Angeles on Thursday for the impending birth of his first child, altering the Dodgers' already-shaky rotation plans for the weekend.
Greinke will miss his scheduled turn in the rotation Friday against the New York Mets and...

Zack Greinke returned to Los Angeles for the birth of his first child and is expected to miss his scheduled start Friday against the New York Mets at Citi Field.
While Manager Don Mattingly said it was “unrealistic” to expect Greinke to be back in time...

Perhaps the baseball gods were punshing him for recently boasting about his health on Twitter.
That's what Brett Anderson hoped as he stood in the clubhouse at Turner Field with his left foot in a walking boot Tuesday night after the Dodgers' 4-3...